Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor
@article{Pedersen2016PostglacialVA, title={Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor}, author={M. Pedersen and Anthony Ruter and C. Schweger and Harvey Friebe and Richard Staff and K. Kjeldsen and M. L. Z. Mendoza and Alwynne B Beaudoin and Cynthia Zutter and N. K. Larsen and B. Potter and R. Nielsen and R. A. Rainville and L. Orlando and D. Meltzer and K. Kj{\ae}r and E. Willerslev}, journal={Nature}, year={2016}, volume={537}, pages={45-49} }
During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia (northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By around 15 to 14 thousand calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal. kyr bp), glacial retreat opened an approximately 1,500-km-long corridor between the ice sheets. It remains unclear when plants and animals colonized this corridor and it became biologically viable for human migration. We obtained radiocarbon dates, pollen… CONTINUE READING
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